George Whitman is the proprietor of the acclaimed Shakespeare and Co. bookstore in Paris, and was a contemporary of such Beat poets as Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He sometimes poses as a grandson... continue reading
posted by bluecliff 1 decade 6 years 12 months ago • 1,408 viewsTime Bandits
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Also known as "Броненосец Потёмкин", "Battleship Potemkin" and "The Battleship Potemkin". "A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 6 years 12 months ago • 2,220 views'Africa Addio' / 'Farewell Africa' (1966) is a documentary film about the decolonization of Africa, made by the Italian film directors Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi. It shows like no other... continue reading
posted by wildmanBill 1 decade 6 years 12 months ago • 4,184 viewsA Muslim nuclear state, ruled by a military dictatorship for two-thirds of its existence, modern-day Pakistan has become a key player in America's 'war on terror.' Author and journalist Ziauddin Sardar... continue reading
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years ago • 3,456 viewsThe parents of Matilda Wormwood treat her badly, Matilda wants learn and to go to school but they tell her to watch TV. Then Matilda becomes aware that she has telekinetic powers. This film was based... continue reading
posted by redthing 1 decade 7 years ago • 1,441 viewsA notorious Channel 4 documentary on the Patrick Henry College [for fundamentally crazy Christian political nut-jobs] and how they've provided a boot camp for ignorant, arrogant Republicans over their... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years ago • 3,690 viewsWhat was the cause of the last six ice ages?
posted by choggie 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 560 viewsFour Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Immigrant, The Adventurer, The Cure, and Easy Street presented with music and sound effects. From Wikipedia: Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. KBE (April 16, 1889... continue reading
posted by benjee 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 464 viewsThe artist that designed the Alien shows us around his studio and gives some insights into his designs for the alien and the train for the 1995 film Species. (9:58. In English with Japanese subtitles).
posted by redthing 1 decade 7 years ago • 4,003 viewsVampyr is a 1932 Danish horror film by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
posted by silvercord 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 171 viewsIn any battle, the key to victory is the ability to strike the enemy without them knowing what hit them. Within the US arsenal one such weapon can go into harm's way, deliver 40,000 pounds of either conventional... continue reading
posted by michie 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 1,992 viewsNow in the public domain, "Glen or Glenda (1953) is a movie, directed by and starring Ed Wood, and featuring Bela Lugosi, and Wood's then-girlfriend Dolores Fuller. The movie is a docudrama about transvestism... continue reading
posted by gorillaman 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 2,511 viewsA film by the Immortality Institute exploring various aspects of extreme life extension including cryonics (cryogenics), caloric restriction, transhumanism, and other scientific pursuits of extreme life extension. ... continue reading
posted by choggie 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 1,344 views • 1:45:32Carefull - the doc. starts out slowly, and these kids are sort of irritating (euphemism) , resembling the two guys from the David Balin spoof! But if these three guys can go to goddam Sudan and Uganda... continue reading
posted by bluecliff 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 3,835 viewsInteresting documentary about the tragic history of Tibet and China's ongoing attempts to destroy Tibetan culture, traditions, and identity. FREE TIBET
posted by gwaan 1 decade 7 years 1 week ago • 24,623 viewsFrom Google: The original silent film classic Lon Chaney, cinema's Man of a Thousand Faces, stars in this silent classic-the first version of Victor Hugo's novel about the tortured hunchback. Half-blind... continue reading
posted by silvercord 1 decade 7 years 2 weeks ago • 1,572 viewsA 90-minute documentary about life before the dinosaurs. in 12 parts, the rest are here: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=TruthTheory&page=2 Starting from the Cambrian Period (530 MYA)... continue reading
posted by johnald128 1 decade 7 years 2 weeks ago • 5,818 viewsOriginally released in 1922 as "Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens," director F.W. Munarau's chilling and eerie adaption of Stoker's Dracula is a silent masterpiece of terror which some believe to this... continue reading
posted by firefly 1 decade 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 1,593 views